In Kettle Cove, Texas, the art is lovely. The murder weapon is a fifty-pound bronze tortoise. Nobody said the art world was subtle. When an art dealer turns up dead in a sculptor's studio — killed with her own bronze casting, leaving her as the obvious suspect — investigator Sable Wilder takes the case. She has a photographic memory, a low tolerance for sloppy framing, and a strong suspicion that a crime this obvious was designed to look that way. The deeper she digs into Kettle Cove's sun-bleached artist colony, the more she finds underneath: a gallery full of secrets, a fraud running years deep, and a killer nobody saw coming. Death by Tortoise . The first Sable Wilder Mystery. In a town full of artists, someone's been very creative.